Private help for public library in Boston

[Commentary] The four branches of the Boston Public Library slated for extinction can live. All of the 26 branches can remain as they are. The only question is where the $3.3 million needed to preserve everything will come from. Absent more city support, the private sector, that's where. This kind of situation is why God invented the private sector. Foundations too. Any number of businesses announce during layoffs they can do more with less. Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. We are under no such illusion. The option approved by its board will only diminish the library experience of real live people. Those without computers at home, particularly the elderly, will struggle to reach a branch farther away. Some may stop going to a library at all. This must never happen again.